I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.